NASHVILLE, TN (Brad Paisley Official Website) -
Brad Paisley has announced the final dates for his TIME WELL WASTED 2006 tour, featuring fellow label-mate Carrie Underwood. Paisley's TIME WELL WASTED TOUR was ranked in Pollstar Magazine as the 5th top country tour in attendance for the first half of 2006 along with No 1 Tim McGraw/Faith Hill, No 2 Kenny Chesney, No 3
Rascal Flatts and No 4
George Strait.
Paisley's 'The World' is No 1 for the third consecutive week on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart while Carrie Underwood's 'Don't Forget To Remember Me' goes to No 1 in R&R.
Paisley's fourth Arista Nashville album, Time Well Wasted, was released on August 16, 2005, and sold 192,747 units in its first week, setting a new career-high for Brad and debuting at No 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and at No 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. The Platinum-certified disc held the No 1 slot for two weeks and became the fourth of Paisley's back-to-back Platinum + albums, with his total sales now topping 7 million. Paisley recently brought home the most wins from the Academy of Country Music Awards, with Album of the Year (Time Well Wasted), and Video and Vocal Event of the Year for 'When I Get Where I'm Going' bringing his total to six ACM Awards and five CMA Awards.
Underwood debuted on the country music scene in late 2005 as one of the most dynamic success stories to emerge out of Nashville. Her 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville album, Some Hearts, is now triple Platinum for sales over 3,000,000 units and has become the fastest such certification for a female country debut in RIAA history and Nielsen SoundScan's fastest-selling debut country album by a female vocalist. Underwood placed both her first two country singles at No 1- 'Jesus, Take The Wheel' (No 1 for six weeks) and 'Don't Forget To Remember Me.' Also among her accolades are 2 ACM Awards for Single Record of the Year for 'Jesus, Take The Wheel' and Top New Female Vocalist, 3 Billboard Awards, 2 CMT Music Awards, a Gospel Music Association Award and a Teen Choice Award.
TIME WELL WASTED 2006 Fall tour dates:
Sept. 22 Birmingham, AL Verizon Wireless Music Center
Sept. 23 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Sept. 24 Pensacola, FL Pensacola Civic Center
Sept. 28 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
Sept. 29 Columbus, OH Germain Amphitheater
Sept. 30 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
Oct. 19 Peoria, IL Peoria Civic Center Arena
Oct. 20 Ft. Wayne, IN War Memorial Coliseum
Oct. 21 Cape Girardeau, MO Show Me Center
Oct. 26 Trenton, NJ Sovereign Bank Arena
Oct. 27 Verona, NY Turning Stone Resort & Casino
Oct. 28 Baltimore, MD First Mariner Center
Nov. 2 Jackson, MS Mississippi Coliseum
Nov. 3 Lafayette, LA Cajundome
Nov. 4 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods-Mitchell Pavilion-Woodlands
Nov. 9 Columbia, SC Colonial Center
Nov. 10 Greenville, SC Bi-Lo Center
Nov. 11 Savannah, GA Savannah Convention Center
Nov. 16 San Antonio, TX AT & T Center
Nov. 17 Wichita Falls, TX Kay Yeager Coliseum
Nov. 18 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center
Nov. 30 Colorado Springs, CO World Arena
Dec. 1 Salt Lake City, UT Delta Center
Dec. 2 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Events Center
Dec. 7 Columbia, MO Mizzou Arena
Dec. 8 Chicago, IL Allstate Arena - Rosemont
